For two teams that hardly see one another, there's a decent amount of history between the New York Rangers and Los Angeles Kings.

Of the five players whose numbers are retired by L.A., three of them would later play for the Rangers.

Marcel Dionne is the Kings' all-time leader in assists and points, playing 12 seasons in L.A. before being dealt to New York late in the 1986-87 campaign. In his one full year on Broadway, the Hall of Famer scored 31 goals and 65 points in 67 games. In 1988, the Rangers had a special night honoring him -- the same night that Brian Leetch made his debut for the Rangers. Dionne, arguably the greatest player never to have won a Stanley Cup, weighed in on the 2014 Finals at the outset of the series and picked the Kings to win.

Luc Robitaille, another Hall of Famer, started his career in Los Angeles, scoring as many as 63 goals and 125 points in 1992-93. The talented left winger spent two seasons with the Blueshirts, scoring 47 goals and helping New York reach the conference finals in 1997. Here's a quick clip of Robitaille scoring against the Flyers in '96. He is currently the president of business operations for the Kings.

And then, of course, there's Wayne Gretzky. "The Great One" wrote the majority of his resume as the sport's all-time leader in goals, assists and points in Edmonton. While he didn't win any Stanley Cups in L.A., his trade to the Kings is credited with not only increasing interest in hockey in the country's second-largest media market, but helping the NHL to expand to a slew of warm weather cities such as Anaheim, San Jose, Florida and Tampa Bay, among others. Gretzky played his final three seasons on Broadway, registering 97 points in 1996-97 and helping the team reach the conference finals, amassing 20 points in 15 playoff games. Here's a video montage of #99's final game in 1999.

One of the more interesting players to wear both jerseys was defenseman Jay Wells, who played for the Kings from 1979-88. Then, after brief stops in Buffalo and Philadelphia, Wells laced up the skates for New York from 1991-95. He was a steady blueliner for the Blueshirts during their Stanley Cup season of 1993-94. The sight of Wells, who had never won a Cup before, holding the trophy aloft in '94 was a lasting image. While we couldn't find video of that, how about the Kings' Wells fighting Rangers' tough guy and Staten Island native Nick Fotiu in 1984?

Before the current series, the two teams have met twice before in the playoffs, with the Rangers winning both first-round matchups. In 1979, New York swept Los Angeles in a best-of-three set en route to reaching the Cup Finals. Two years later, the Rangers captured a best-of-five series 3 to 1. Ironically, the most famous game from that series was New York's lone loss. The Kings won Game 2 in overtime in a contest punctuated by a huge benches-clearing brawl that featured Fotiu (who wasn't even playing) taking exception to a fan holding New York's Ed Hospodar.